Pathetic author is just trying to find ways to bash on people that were obviously a lot more intelligent than he. Regardless if you agree or disagree with Hitler, you're an idiot if you don't think he was an "original" thinker. The ignorance of some people is just overwhelming.

Please note the article states: "Among other tests, a German version of the Wechsler-Bellevue was administered."

When you go to your wiki link, if you click 'Wechsler Classification' you will see that almost all of them score exceptionally high. The author of the original article is a bald-faced liar in using a different scale to evaluate the meanings of the results.

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You may notice I do not capitalize certain, otherwise proper nouns. It is intentional! These 'people' have done nothing to earn such respect in my eyes.

Please note the article states: "Among other tests, a German version of the Wechsler-Bellevue was administered."

When you go to your wiki link, if you click 'Wechsler Classification' you will see that almost all of them score exceptionally high. The author of the original article is a bald-faced liar in using a different scale to evaluate the meanings of the results.

There are 3 different scales, Terman's, Wescheler's, and a general one.
on the 3 of them they are shown as above average and geniuses...

There are different IQ tests (Weschler, MENSA, Stanford-Binet are a few), and different tests can come up with different results. Even one test administered multiple times can come up with different results each time, especially if the results of each attempt are interpreted by different, independent psychologists. Other factors can affect results, such as environment, genetics, and even race (I'm willing to bet that extra points may be awarded to minorities by way of Affirmative Action, but that is just a personal theory).

My personal scores have ranged from 123 to 152, and I have taken all three of the tests I named above. They were administered at different points in my life, and each was administered by a different person.

As far as socialist leaders, I cannot find any info on that. However, Obama's IQ is reported to be between 110-165 (WikiAnswers), however I was unable to find much from sources that I believe are credible and unbiased.

Since they all knew they were soon to be hanged, they had just lost a war, they were in prison, probably very tired, and were having to listen to all the tripe about the Holocaust, and I doubt they were given much opportunity to acclimatise themselves to the nature of the questions etc. I'm sure their performance would have suffered greatly. So please add 20 marks minimum to these scores if you want meaningful results. Dr Ernst Kaltenbrunner (Phd law) was no fool, Schacht, Von Papen, Von Neurath, Doenitz, Raeder, Keitel, Speer, and Jodl were not necessarily National Socialists (certainly not Party functionaries and probably not even paper Party members), and Streicher held no official position.

A very high percentage of the Natuonal Socialist Party had doctorates and a large number were graduates, at a time when a degree was not so easily obtainable. Certainly it would have had the most educated membership of any political Party in the world at that time.

Anyway leading a Party and running a war requires many skills that are not necessarily intellectual ones.

You'll find that most world leaders have an above average IQ, believe it or not George Bush has an above average IQ.

I do believe that. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want (though this isn't nearly as bad as most), I've thought for quite some time now that there is NO way in hell that guy is as stupid as he pretends to be... I thought he was advised to pretend to be an idiot so that the American people wouldn't take him seriously... so that we'd focus on making fun of him rather than focusing on what was actually going on with our country. If you pay attention, he got more and more stupid over time.